ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates the capabilities of hip hop-inspired design thinking in post-secondary humanities-centered computational media instruction and the digital preservation of student-produced media artifacts within The HipHop2020 Innovation Archive—specifically as it relates to digital archival design. Hip hop-inspired design research recognizes that the currency in hip hop-inspired design thinking rests in the inherent decisions, methods, patterns, and sensibilities of the culture and how design principles are adapted to serve both an emotional and functional purpose in media production. Hip hop-inspired design studies are a critical framework that considers the ways in which hip hop's principles and affordances impact design and design thinking. The chapter makes design thinking the explicit object of inquiry in the thematic implementation and practical structuring of assessments for a set of course modules used in a 14-week course taught as a post-secondary humanities-based computational media elective. HipHop2020's foray into digital humanities began in 2009 as an archival platform designed using a Wix interface.
